Nicolas Hüet
1770-1828
Study of the Giraffe Given to Charles X by the Viceroy of Egypt
1827
10 1/16 x 7 5/8 inches (254 x 194 mm)
Watercolor and some opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper.
1994.1
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated, in pen and brown ink, at lower left, "hüet 1827"; numbered for scale at lower right, "1/16".
Associated names
Bayser, Bruno de, former owner.
De Rothschild, Kate, former owner.
De Rothschild, Kate, former owner.
Bibliography
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 27, repr. in color.
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Century Drawings
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